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Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go ahead

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STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...

RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!

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RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

Anti-Brexit insurgents gather!

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LIBERAL Democrat, Labour and SDLP MPs have said they are prepared to vote against triggering Article 50 which begins the process of leaving the...

Gaza death toll passes 39,000!

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THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...

Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike

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BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

Hamas condemns Israel’s brutal and treacherous aggression!

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HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...
Part of the huge demonstration outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday night

Doctors Denounce Israel!

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MORE than 20 leading doctors and scientists from the UK and Italy have denounced Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza in a letter to The...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...

CORONER RULES OUT ‘UNLAWFUL KILLING’ VERDICT – in de Menezes inquest

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Solicitors for the Jean Charles de Menezes family yesterday went to the High Court to seek a judicial review of the coroner’s ruling that...

Israeli forces carry out raids across West Bank and Gaza

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ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

Free School ‘Theft’ Continues – Atl

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ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...

LINCOLN NHS WORK-TO-RULE – over £1,700 cut in salaries

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MAINTENANCE staff at three Lincolnshire hospitals are taking industrial action today, as they face a loss of about £1,700 to their incomes. The electricians, plumbers,...

HEATHROW – McDonnell suspended

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‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...
Young Tamils outside Parliament re-enacting the butchery of the Sri Lankan Army against the Tamil people

Massacre In Vanni!

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TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...

6th Form strikes escalating

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ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...
March in Ealing on April 26 against the closure of the Ealing, Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals

STOP NHS STAFF CUTS – says Safe Staffing Alliance

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SENIOR nurses have issued a warning about unsafe staffing levels on hospital wards in England. The Safe Staffing Alliance, which includes the Royal College of...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors

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THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...

Gatwick Airport Faces Default!

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GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...

London FBU To Vote On Strike Action

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Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members in London are to vote on industrial action ‘up to and including strikes’ by 24 June. The London FBU Regional...
Tory cuts to beds have created a major crisis where hospitals are attempting to operate at 100% bed occupancy

Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity

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HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...

Tories Moving To Dump Truss!

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YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
Road hauliers and their families across the road from Downing Street yesterday afternoon

Hauliers angry over fuel bills

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All along the A40, road hauliers and truckers, parked up their big machines and made their way to Marble Arch to warn Gordon...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK and pickets having words with a scab crew at the Old Kent Road fire station

Support The Firefighters!

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Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...

GAZA CITY MASSACRE! – 29 killed and 80 missing

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‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

British Gas Staff Reject Boss’s Obscene Rise

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THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...

Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...

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‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...

Nationalise Gm Now!

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‘GM workers in Luton should intensify their calls for a mass meeting to demand an immediate occupation,’ ex-Vauxhall convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...
Striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday during their latest 4-day strike over pay

BA profits £1.47bn–cabin crew outraged

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STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were outraged yesterday by the announcement of £1.47 billion profits for BA for the last financial year,...

‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink

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‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...

25 Colleges strike over pay

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OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...
Greek workers marching on May Day with a banner reading ‘The bosses’ junta is not invincible’ referring to the European union

MERKEL DEMANDS POLITICAL UNION! –as the price for Spanish bailout

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THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...
Grenfell firefighters form a Guard of Honour for the silent march – the community supports them 100 per cent

Grenfell Tower ‘a highly combustible deathtrap’ – –Seaward representing FBU tells inquiry

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THE LONDON Fire Brigade (LFB) and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) gave evidence on Day 11 of the Grenfell Inquiry, answering media slurs at...

‘SMOKESCREEN FOR HUGE CUTS’ – Unions condemn ‘Localism Bill’

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‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...
Young Soialists demonstrating in Norwich demanding jobs for youth, free state education and an end to state repression of young people

Long-Term Youth Unemployment Up 41.9% In A Year

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THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...

Capitalism in its greatest ever crisis – Forward to British & World Revolution

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MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...
Mau Mau detainees outside London’s High Court recently won massive compensation for British army atrocities committed against them

‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa

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BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

Iran Accuses US & Britain Of Complicity In Carnage At The Al Nuseirat Camp

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THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...
GPs and their supporters with their main banner showing that they are determined to fight to maintain and defend the NHS

‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’

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OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

Eurozone Collapsing!

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Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...
On November 30 over 2 million workers took strike action throughout the UK in defence of their pensions – the struggle is continuing

2012–The year for organising the working class to take power

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...

Junior doctors considering more strike actions!

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JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...